Video ( see below)has emerged of the moment an Argentinian man was caught in the act of trying to rape an eight year girl, who was then stripped and forced to walk around the community to publicly shame him.

According to local media, the incident is alleged to have happened in the neighborhood of Santa Brigidia, off the outskirts of San Miguel in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Images of the man’s walk of shame showed the young man, who is yet to be identified, being pulled by a rope for eight blocks before his captors handed him over to the police.

Once at the police car, a policewoman takes the rope off, handcuffs him and bundles him still into the police car, whilst people gather round, shouting insults at him.

‘Next time we will kill you’, one man can be heard shouting, whilst a woman says: ‘Degenerate! Tie him to the back of the car.’

Notes a local report translated from Spanish: The video records the last scenes, when delivered to a police officer.

The detainee says: “Tell them to give me clothes, officer,” but an angry woman shouts: “Tomátelas, do you want clothes, violin. It llevalo up there (by the patrol vehicle) is a rapist. What will defend a rapist? “

Another neighbor shouts: “Next time you die”

A man dressed in blue apparently constable, slaps him.

The images according to a report via the dailymailwere uploaded by some of the locals on social media with the caption: ‘The neighbours of the community have done justice when we apprehended a criminal who was about to rape a little girls of just 8 years, and we handed him over to police who we hope will get justice for the innocent girl.’

There is no news yet as to what action the authorities will take against the man or what evidence locals had to humiliate him as they did.